Marsha says Larry was enjoying this a bit too much
Las Vegas Strip at Night
Hoover Dam
Date: Saturday, June 12
Day: 29
RV Miles: 3,315
Location: Visalia, CA
Elevation: 378 ft
Wow, that was a long stretch of road from Glendale, UT to here, literally and figuratively: from the backwaters of nowhere to the rich agricultural lands of California. They even have grass and real trees here. Except for a few days in Williams, Arizona near the Grand Canyon, Sasha and I haven’t seen a blade of grass in 4 weeks.
After leaving Glendale we stopped off in Las Vegas – a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live where the temperature was 100+. Larry took Marsha on a tour of the local sights at Larry speed. We got to Las Vegas about 3PM and before they went to bed they had: taken in Hoover Dam, had a dinner, did a show and toured the strip after dark. We hit the road bright and early the next morning.
After a leisurely four-hour drive we landed in – well let me set this up. The Marine Corps has a tendency to find the worst, most God-forsaken hellholes as locations for training bases. Well, the only claim to fame for the town we landed in was that it was in the middle of the Mojave Desert and it had a Marine Base. I am sure you will recognize the town’s name – Yermo, California. What? Never heard of it? Well, you couldn’t miss it – it was the first town in a hundred miles of desert that had a gas station.
On Saturday, we left the garden spot / sand box named Yermo and headed to Visalia, CA. Now this place is a garden spot: calm, cool and green. Larry told me this will be our base of operations for visiting Sequoia National Park.
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